From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

🎶this is how legends are made🎶

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

Eastman was not disbarred for making bad constitutional arguments, nor because he represented Trump, nor because he challenged the results of an election, all of which are allowed. Eastman was disbarred because he knowingly lied to the courts with deliberately false factual representations.

In the beginning the universe was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Exactly one year ago today:

What a believable basketball game.

Robert Plant singing in Black Dog voice:

Thank you @sanders.senate.gov for your leadership in bringing forward this resolution. It’s clear — Leader Chuck Schumer is out of step with the Democratic Party. While Trump drags us into an endless war, voters are demanding we fight for peace. Primaries matter — I’m a NO on Schumer.

Realizing I have watched zero Charlotte Hornets basketball this season, because I did not realize that his name is pronounced Ka-Nipple.

it would be neat if one of these surveys alternated between asking these questions and providing the answers

Watching Baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

Remember the flashing chyron in the South Park scientology episode that said, "this is what scientologists actually believe"?

Without the close wins that the Nuggets gutted out in January to hang around .500 without Jokic, they don't make the 3 seed. This game, in which they beat the full-strength 76ers in Philly without all 5 starters + 2 rotation bench players, was particularly absurd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXD...

I am absolutely not reading all those words about the Pope.

Longtime disdain for everything about UFC continually and thunderously vindicated

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Incredible that human beings figured out how to do this. How cool. What if we only did cool stuff

This sort of reinforces the Discovery Institute analogy I made last week. You dredge up half a dozen dissenters from an overwhelming scholarly consensus, not because their arguments are particularly compelling, but to establish that the issue is “controversial”. This creates a permission structure…

This isn't a dismissive strawman description. It's a buzzword-laden hype slogan.

“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.

Worst leader of any kind in the history of human civilization.

Aaron Gordon.

It's so delightful how every single NBA game has disputed officiating.

Experts Are Just Jealous.

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

it's April 1st, don't forget to update your LinkedIn

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/... the american century of humiliation continues

"I had to review many customer accounts, and certain patterns emerged. I examined the type of gambling customers did, the amount and frequency of their depositing, and the kind of neighborhood they lived in to get an idea of how underwater they were."

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

really interesting piece by @anandwrites.bsky.social that delves deeper into ’what did his associates know?’ open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

Good one to file away for later

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

i am begging for cis people to realize that this is the end goal; make existing in the public sphere fundamentally untenable for trans people such that we'll detransition/stay in the closet, or worse. it's never been about women's spaces, or the sanctity of sports, or Protecting The Youth

This guy switching sides is like Chekhov's gun with a little post it note saying "don't forget: buy bullets" and it's hung on the wall pointing at a picture of a guy with an x drawn over his face

Everyone loves to say that when you travel you shouldn’t just do the touristy stuff and should try to experience the authentic local culture, but when a European tries to experience American culture (spending your entire life in a car), everyone gets mad

pudding is the funniest dessert. one blop of sweet slorp please

12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion). Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.

once again I am compelled to mention that Bush v. Gore likely went down the way it did because Sandra Day O'Connor cooked her brain on talk radio scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcont...

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

An American physician, now practising medicine in Canada has some useful reflections "In Canada, where people don’t fear bankruptcy for seeking care, patients come in and they just talk to you, about doctor things. That’s a profound relief, for them and me" canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/15/i...

the new strategy for getting people to bet on sports is dressing it up in Wall Street jargon: defector.com/its-gambling

i am, effective immediately, opting out of the american century of humiliation. it will not apply to me. thank you!

Reporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?” PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.” Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?” PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”

Who possibly could have seen the landmark Supreme Court decision of LEOPARDS v. PEOPLE'S FACES (2024) leading to this moment?

Why, after years of scrutiny, isn’t there any evidence that large numbers of children were given irreversible treatments without assessment? “The journals are corrupt! And the doctors are corrupt! And the debate was suppressed! And the data is coming out any time now!” Like listen to yourselves